Mounting for shade fixtures



Nov. 4, 1930. MQQRE 1,780,271

'MQUNTI-NG FOR SHADE FIXTURES Filed Oct. 17, 1928 INVENTOR Roger E. Moore.

"25$ ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 4, 1930 PATENT OFFICE i ROGER E. MOORE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y'.

MOUNTING FOR SHADE FIXTURES.

Application filed October 17, 1928. Serial No. 312,969.

My invention relates to mountings for shade fixtures and has for an object a provided device which may be permanently attached to a window frame and in which a shade fixture of standard commercial type may be adjustably secured.

Heretofore it has been the practice to fasten shade fixtures directly to a window frame with nails or screws, and considerable care has had tobe exercised to attach the fixtures at the proper spacing for the particular shade roller they are to support. Shade rollers are apt to vary slightly in length and it is often necessary to shift the 5fixtures when a new roller is installed. If

the fixtures are secured directly to the window frame, this results in disclosing unsightly nail holes or otherwise marring the .frame when the fixture is moved.

Another objection to the practice of applying the fixtures directly to the frame is that the standard fixture has a comparatively narrow base and is held with a pair of nails or screws at the top and bottom respectively and not widely spaced apart. This mode of fastening offers little resistance to lengthwise movements of the roller and hence there is a tendency for fixtures to work loose, this tendency being particularly marked when "nails rather than screws are used to secure the fixturesto the frame. i

It is an object of my invention to overcome these difficulties by providing a permanent mounting for the fixture, this mounting con- 'sisting of a broad base member having a channel therein extending in a direction par allel to the axis of the roller and in such channel the fixture is heldby frictionso that .it may be adjusted readily for rollers of various lengths. I

Another object of my invention is to provide a mounting in which a fixture may be readily introduced and frictionally engaged. and further to provide a stop means adapted to cooperate with apertures int-he fixture to hold the latter, should it by any chance work out of frictional engagement' with the mount mg. 7

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple and inexpensive mounting invention consists in various novel features I ofco'nstruction, and combinations and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully described hereinafter and pointed out in the following claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a plan View of my improved mounting for shade fixtures showing a fixture fitted therein;

Fig. 2 is a view in longitudinal section, on an enlarged scale, the section being taken on line 2-2 of Fig. 1 and the fixture being re moved 5.

Fig. 3 is a view in transverse section, on an enlarged scale taken on theline 33 of Fig. 1; and

Fig. a is a view in transverse section, on an gnlarged scale taken on the line 44 of As shown in the drawings, my improved mounting consists of a supportingmember or plate lO formed with flanges 1111, at the upper and lower margins of plate. These flanges are bent inwardly to form grooves 12 in which the base 13 of a shade fixture 14 may slide. The width of the plate 10 between the flanges 1111 is such as to provide a good running fit for the base 13 and the flanges are relatively narrow being of a. width merely sufficient to grip the outer edges of the base 13.

Intermediate between the flanges 11-11 are a pair of ribs 15 running lengthwise of the plate 10. .The ribs are of such height that the base 13 of thefixture must be flexed as it is adjusted over them (as best shown in Fig. 4). The fiexure of the base 13 is sufl'icient to provide a powerful frictional grip on the fixture so that the latter will stay where put and can be moved only by tapping it with a hammer along the length of the mounting. r 1

In order to facilitate the introduction of the fixture into the mounting, the flanges 11 are tapered, as shown at 16 in Fig. 2, thus enlarging the grooves 12 at the outer end of the mounting, that is the end shown at the left hand side of Figs. 1 and 2. The ribs 15 are also oppositely tapered as indicated at 17, so as to facilitate the introduction of the fixture into the mounting. Near the outer end of the mounting, the plate 10 is extruded to form a pair of teeth 18 which are alined with apertures 19 normally provided in shade fixtures for the purpose of attachment. The purpose of these teeth is to catch in the apertures 19 and hold the fixtures to the mounting should it work toward the outer end of the mounting. These teeth 18 are not of sufficient height to interfere materially with the introduction of the fixture into the mounting and in practise the fixture may be snapped past them, but they are of sufiicient height to serve as stops to prevent the fixture from dropping out of the mounting. In other words, a certain amount of force is required to pass the fixtures over the teeth 18.

The plate 10 is provided with openings 20 which are located preferably in the space between the ribs 15 and through these openings screws or nails may be introduced to fasten the mounting to the window frame. Obviously screw or nail holes could be provided at other points in the plate 10, although preferably they would have to be counter-sunk so as not to interfere with the adjustment of the fixture in the mounting.

In practise, a pair of mountings would be secured to a window frame, one at each side thereof with the tapered ends of the grooves 12 facing outward or away from the window. A pair of fixtures could then be fitted into the mountings respectively and by tapping them with a hammer, they could be adjusted to the proper spacing to receive the shade roller. If, for any reason, it were necessary to change a shade roller, the fixtures could readily be adjusted to accommodate the new roller.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as novel and desire to protect by Letters Patent is i 1. A mounting for shade fixtures, comprising a plate provided with inwardly turned flanges at opposite margins thereof to form opposed grooves, the plate being further formed with a rib intermediate between and parallel to said grooves, said rib being tapered near one end of the plate to merge into the plane of the plate, and the flanges being oppositely tapered at said end to provide enlarged months for saidgrooves.

2. A mounting for shade fixtures comprising a plateprovided with inwardly turned flanges at opposite margins thereof to form opposed grooves, the plate being also formed with a pair of ribs., parallel to and intermedi ate between said grooves, and the plate being further formed with apertures between said ribs to permit of fastening the plate to a sultable support.

8. A mounting for a shade fixture having a base plate, said mounting comprising a supporting plate provided with inwardly turned flanges at opposite margins thereof to form grooves for the reception of said base plate, the supporting plate being also formed with ribs parallel to and intermediate between said flanges, the ribs merging into the plane of the supporting plate at one end of the plate, and the flanges being tapered at said end of the supporting plate to provide enlarged months for the grooves, and the supporting plat-e being further formed with retaining means at said end for retaining the shade fixture on the supporting plate.

4. A mounting for a shade fixture having a base plate with apertures therein, said mounting comprising a supporting plate provided with inwardly turned flanges at opposite mar ins thereof to form grooves for the reception of said base plate, the supporting plate being also formed with ribs parallel to and intermediate between said flanges, the ribs merging into the plane of the supporting plate at the one end of the plate, and the flanges being tapered at said end to provide enlarged months for the grooves, and the plate being further formed with teeth adjacent said end and alined with said apertures.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification.

ROGER E. MOORE. 

